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             ir placement as the gateway to the underworld, are a reference to the death of Aegean culture and the coming, or rebirth of that culture into, what is, fundamentally, Rome.
             Daedalus’ gateway is void of Icarus, his son, and is a testimony to the grievance of the passing of a loved one in what it does not represent. However, does this lack of representation suggest that it is possible, in the absence of grief, to move forward? Is the blank space that was meant for Icarus a testimony of grief, or, by its present physical nature, a testimony to the lack of grief? Could we then presuppose that this lack of grief is what enables the transition for Aeneas to leave behind, finally, at the end of his journey in Book VI, his Trojan past?
             Before fully being able to answer these questions posed to us, we mus
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